Clarifying further, a voter would supply his Social Security # upon entering the polling place and requesting a ballot. For those concerned about privacy, it could be set up to have the voter punch in his SS# and have it blocked out (like passwords currently are) and then the screen would fill with the relevant data, citizen, name, age, current address, and no date of death thus far. (The SS# wouldn’t have to appear on the screen.)
Combine that with a photo ID with name and current address, and you’d be good to go.
Then go to work on the absentee ballot fraud, probably by insisting upon personal visits to the county clerk’s office to vote absentee and by once again requiring specific reasons to qualify for an absentee ballot.
An idea I have been playing with is voting by cell phone. The more I think about it, the better I like it. Everyone would have to provide a SSN or ITIN when buying a phone. There are some wrinkles that would have to be ironed out, but I don’t think it would be that hard.
It would be much easier to vote
No lines
No taking time off work
You could vote while on a business trip or vacation
You could vote in your city elections even while out of state going to school
Using your phone number as ID would cut way down on ID theft
The poor get free phones already from the government
There would be no need to vote by mail
Illegal aliens wouldn’t be able to get a phone